I'm not negative about LLMs in and of themselves, I actually kinda like them, but I'm happy to see the bubble finally burst.
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@rnd From what I can see, it *is* a partisan issue, actually. There are two camps: AI shills who will eat up anything as long as it's AI, and hardcore denialists who just ignore or aggressively reject the world changing around them.
The shills are led and fed by big AI corporations who are very much in bed with the Republicans and the current US administration, which directly or indirectly subsidizes the AI datacenter build-up with taxpayer money.
So the denialists congregate in the blue camp or further left - the further, the more frantic in weeding out any and all use of machine learning tools, so the rest must join in, and some do for the fear.
Which makes the margin of mixers and in-betweeners razor-thin. The whole discourse is very polarized and broken and everything you will hear or read about it on the Internet *will* be wrong.
Kinda makes me wanna fast-forward time until years after the bubble has been burst and everyone has calmed down and come to their goddamn senses.
@drq at least according to polls (https://www.pewresearch.org/internet/2026/06/17/americans-and-ai-appendix-detailed-chart-and-tables/pi_2026-06-17_americans-and-ai_a-05/), the partisan divide is rather small, at least compared to that based on race or gender
it looks more prominent on social media, because people talking about it a lot tend to cluster politically, but in real life, probably not as much
@drq one thing that i'm afraid of is that this timing would make it really easy for trump and his cronies to go "the democrats hate the economy" and turn AI into a partisan issue (so far it's not, with republicans only slightly more in favor of it, but about equally not in favor of specific issues, like the data center build-up)